The major flaw was always Haneke’s inability to sustain shock beyond the abstracted confines of his protagonists; filmmaker and art-house audience played a zero sum game, equal parts sadomasochistic ...

Caché: Drama. Starring Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche. Directed by Michael Haneke. (R. 121 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Those willing to blast for it will be able to find some truth in "Caché, ...

The goal of psychoanalysis, argues Adam Phillips, is to become boring to yourself. It is “the therapy that frees people to lose interest in themselves; there’s nothing more self-preoccupying than a ...

Michael Haneke’s “Cache” (“Hidden”), a thriller with a powerful political subtext, opens with a long, mysterious shot of a Parisian house, taken from across a quiet street. The shot is fixed, ...

In the Austrian director Michael Haneke’s Caché (available on DVD and for download on Amazon Unbox), a Parisian TV talk show host named Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) ...

Austrian director Michael Haneke (Caché, La Pianiste) made the original Funny Games in 1997 as a response to what the director considered to be the deplorable and irresponsible treatment of violence ...

Among contemporary European filmmakers, one of the great current critics’ darlings is Michael Haneke. He’s a German-born director who began his career in Austria and now works mostly in France, and ...

Resting entirely on the shoulders of an impeccable Daniel Auteuil, Hidden deals with guilt on two levels, that of an individual threatened forty years after a childhood jealousy which distance his ...

What's the only thing people love more than a good mystery? Twist: it's an unsolved mystery. Numerous urban legends are built around unsolved mysteries, an entire television show was built around ...

Few directors focus on dark, existentially dreadful scenarios with the consistency of the great Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. Less consistent in terms of style than theme, in movies like “Funny ...